HOW GORDON DIED.

Kumara Times, Issue 2782, 21 August 1885, Page 3

HOW GORDON DIED.

The military correspondent of the Daily News at Dongola sends another storv of Gordon's death told him by a Greek, who was made to wear the Mahdi's uniform, and in this costume walked down to Berber. He had no money, but begged his way from village to village. Sometimes he was hunted, and had to hide away; at others he was made to work as a capiuced slave by men who knew him to be a Greek. At length, after a peiiod of twenty-eight days from Berber, he reached Aboudom, where, suspected at first as a spy, he was made prisoner. He was then sent down by Colonel Butler to General Bailer. His very disjointed story is thus given in his own words: — HOW GORDON WAS KILLED. But listen, I pray you. Have you not asked me where G<»don Pasha was slain ? You say everybody has s iid he was either killed on tin? courtyard steps of the palace or outside, going to the Austrian Consul's house. They all lie! Ii you choose to believe them you may, it matters not to me. I am a respectable Greek merchant, not an Arab. You want the truth : I tell it to you. True, I did see Gordon slain ; but everybody in Khartoum knows where the event happened. An Arab rushed upstairs and shot him- with a <*aa as he was rending the Bible. Another Arab cut off his head and put it on a spear; and so went forth the city, carrying it and brandishing ifc on high. The Copts in the pabice in the rooms below were slaughtered at, the same time. .Gordon's head taken to the mahdi. Gordon's head I saw on a spear. It was taken over to Otnduvman, and showed no Mahomet Aehmet. It was laid before him. A grim savage smile passed over his face. He gazed lonrj; at the countenance of his late enemy. " God be praised ! " he cried, " cau this be his?" He did not express anger at Gordon's death, as you say has been reported—he mado merry at his deaoh. when it was tokl him. The head was then borne away, and mem plucked the hairs out of his head ard heard, aril spat in his face. His body was cut op into little pieces. This was his eod ! I omitted to say that Goidon wrote to the Mahdi saying that he might be Viceroy of Kordofan. The Mahdi replied, " I am sent by God to be king of all !" and invi'ed him to surrender. Goidon replied in insulting tesms, saying he was a false Mahdi, and that he (Gordon) would never surrender to him. ..__„_,.,